The Time Out New York chandelier: Making of

1) First we took the staples out of the magazine. Then we rolled each spread into a tube from top to bottom. To keep them from unraveling, we taped each roll with four pieces of clear Scotch tape. (We cut some of these rolls in half later, such that each would have a couple pieces of tape securing them.)

2) Then we used a length of wood-veneer stripping and formed two rings of identical hoops, taping them closed with masking tape to form a diameter of about 24 inches across.

3) We then laid out some tubes on the floor, seam side up; put a line of hot glue and wood glue about one inch from the tubes’ tops; and then placed the veneer ring on top of that. So if, say, you had ten tubes lined up, they’d all stick to the veneer perpendicularly.

4) Next, put a line of both glues across the bottom (about one inch in again) and affix the second veneer ring. Then lay out some more tubes and glue them down next to the tubes that are already on the ring. It’s easy to do this with the rings on their sides, using the tubes as the base. You’re all done with this part when you have a big drum shape made of tubes.

5) Now do that twice more with smaller hoops (say 18" and 11" ones), and once more again with a ring about 29" in diameter. The larger ring will be just one hoop, since you’ll glue on smaller-page tubes (this is where you cut them in half), and now the bead of glues go across the middle.

6) At this point, you should have four sizable drums of paper tubes. The largest one (the one with the single-page tubes) will get glued to the next-biggest drum so it looks like Saturn. This we did by gluing separate tubes to the outside center of the big one, and then gluing the large ring to those.

7) Then we made an “x” of two pieces of 1/4" x 5 "x 30" plywood; centered the “Saturn” tube on it; and measured where we should cut each end of plywood so it would fit tight under the top veneer hoop. Find the center and drill a hole in it for the electrical cord. Wood-glue the “x” to the hoop (do this with the Saturn tube upside down.)

8) After the glue dries, put a length of lamp cord though the hole and attach a socket to the interior end. The reason we used both hot glue and wood glue is that hot glue will loosen when heat from the bulb gets to it, whereas wood glue won’t, so no worries.

9) Now, simply suspend the next-biggest ring from the “x” with any thin-gauge wire, attaching it to the veneer hoop; the same goes for the smaller ring. Attach a plug to the other end, or just connect it to an overhead fixture. Better yet, have a licensed electrician do this.

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